Why should __prepare__ be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod?

2014-05-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. I did search for this but couldn't find the info anywhere else, so I'm asking here. Please point out if I've missed some other source of the same info: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#basic-customization documents that __new__ is special-cased so that while it is

Re: Why should __prepare__ be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod?

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Shriramana Sharma samj...@gmail.com wrote: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#basic-customization documents that __new__ is special-cased so that while it is actually a static method, it need not be decorated as such. I have a similar question.

Re: using a new computer and bringing needed libraries to it

2014-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday, May 18, 2014 5:47:05 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: Make a list of the [Python-specific] packages you need. Put it in a file called requirements.txt. […] What about things installed at a lower level than pip, eg apt-get? That's an

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-18 Thread Roy Smith
In article 53783c5f$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: You may find that the IPython interactive interface to Python is useful. It presents an interface which should be familiar to anyone with experience with Mathematica.

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-18 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? SAGE: http://www.sagemath.org/ Sincerely, Wolfgang -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/05/2014 14:25, Roy Smith wrote: In article 53783c5f$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: You may find that the IPython interactive interface to Python is useful. It presents an interface which should be familiar to

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-05-18, Bill Cunningham nospam@nspam.invalid wrote: Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? No. It has very good numerical computation capabilities, but it does not really do math (at least not what a mathemetician would consider math). I am interested in learning a

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote in message news:llak9u$8rs$1...@reader1.panix.com... On 2014-05-18, Bill Cunningham nospam@nspam.invalid wrote: Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? No. It has very good numerical computation capabilities, but it does not really

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2014-05-18 16:40, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-05-18, Bill Cunningham nospam@nspam.invalid wrote: Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? No. It has very good numerical computation capabilities, but it does not really do math (at least not what a mathemetician would

Re: Can't figure out 'instance has no attribute' error

2014-05-18 Thread varun7rs
On Sunday, 18 May 2014 01:56:42 UTC+2, varu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Friends, I am working on this code but I kind of get the same error over and over again. Could any of you help me fix this part of the error? File RW1: class PHY_NETWORK: def __init__(self, nodes,

Re: Can't figure out 'instance has no attribute' error

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:02 AM, varun...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much Ned, Rodri and Gary. I changed the settings of gedit text editor as mentioned in the Zed Shaw tutorial. I think this is causing me the problem. I'll follow your advice. I find that there are better editors than

Re: Loading modules from files through C++

2014-05-18 Thread Roland Plüss
On 05/17/2014 07:05 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: Roland Plüss, 17.05.2014 18:28: On 05/17/2014 05:49 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: Roland Plüss, 17.05.2014 17:28: On 05/17/2014 04:01 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: Roland Plüss, 17.05.2014 15:49: On 05/17/2014 03:26 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: Roland Plüss,

[RELEASED] Python 2.7.7 release candidate 1

2014-05-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Greetings Python users, Python 2.7.7 release candidate 1 is now available for download. Python 2.7.7 is a regularly scheduled bugfix release for the Python 2.7 series. The 2.7.7 release contains fixes for two severe, if arcane, potential security vulnerabilities. The first was the possibility of

Re: Loading modules from files through C++

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Roland Plüss rol...@rptd.ch wrote: This exec source_code in module.__dict__ , should this not also be doable with PyEval_EvalCode? General principle: The more code you write in Python and the less in C/C++, the happier and more productive you will be. Drop into

bz2.decompress as file handle

2014-05-18 Thread Vincent Davis
I have a file compressed with bz2 and a function that expects a file handle. When I decompress the bz2 file I get a string (binary) not a file handle. Here is what I have that does not work. There is no error (thats a seperate issue) CelFile.read just fails to read the data(string). from

Re: bz2.decompress as file handle

2014-05-18 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-05-18 19:53, Vincent Davis wrote: I have a file compressed with bz2 and a function that expects a file handle. When I decompress the bz2 file I get a string (binary) not a file handle. from bz2 import decompress, with open('Tests/Affy/affy_v3_ex.CEL.bz2', 'rb') as handle:

Re: bz2.decompress as file handle

2014-05-18 Thread Vincent Davis
Well after posting, I think I figured it out. The key is to use StringIO to get a file handle on the string. The fact that it is binary just complicates it a little. with open('Tests/Affy/affy_v3_ex.CEL.bz2', 'rb') as handle: cel_data = StringIO(decompress(handle.read()).decode('ascii'))

Re: bz2.decompress as file handle

2014-05-18 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Vincent Davis vinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: Well after posting, I think I figured it out. The key is to use StringIO to get a file handle on the string. The fact that it is binary just complicates it a little. with open('Tests/Affy/affy_v3_ex.CEL.bz2', 'rb')

Re: bz2.decompress as file handle

2014-05-18 Thread Vincent Davis
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: You can just use bz2.open: with bz2.open('test.txt.bz2', 'rt', encoding='ascii') as f: ... print(f.read()) ​Thanks I like that better then my solution. ​ Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 --

[issue21520] Erroneous zipfile test failure if the string 'bad' appears in pwd

2014-05-18 Thread Larry Hastings
New submission from Larry Hastings: If you extract current Python (3.4 or trunk) into a directory, and anywhere in the name of the directory is the string bad, such as /tmp/badtest /home/baddison/src/python then test_write_filtered_python_package() in Lib/test/test_zipfile.py will fail. The

[issue21520] Erroneous zipfile test failure if the string 'bad' appears in pwd

2014-05-18 Thread Georg Brandl
Changes by Georg Brandl ge...@python.org: -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21520 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue21521] Tkinter + OSX + Spaces : Multiple file dialogues created

2014-05-18 Thread rovf
New submission from rovf: I'm running this on OSX 10.6 (SnowLeopard) with the OSX Spaces feature enabled (i.e. several virtual desktops). This is my (complete) program: from tkinter.filedialog import asksaveasfilename pathname=asksaveasfilename(initialdir='.',title='gaga') This has the

[issue21521] Tkinter + OSX + Spaces : Multiple file dialogues created

2014-05-18 Thread Ned Deily
Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org: -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21521 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue21430] Document ssl.pending()

2014-05-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I'm not intending to document the pending() method. Apparently the only people wanting to use it are/were confused about how exactly to write non-blocking SSL code, which is not a good hint. -- resolution: - wont fix stage: - resolved status: open -

[issue21515] Use Linux O_TMPFILE flag in tempfile.TemporaryFile?

2014-05-18 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: tempfile_o_tmpfile2.patch: Updated patch to handle OS errors. I'm not sure that __O_TMPFILE has the same value on all architectures. The O_TMPFILE flag was added to fcntl.h in the glibc 2.19 (released the 8 Feb 2014):

[issue21515] Use Linux O_TMPFILE flag in tempfile.TemporaryFile?

2014-05-18 Thread STINNER Victor
Changes by STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file35276/tempfile_o_tmpfile2.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21515 ___

[issue21515] Use Linux O_TMPFILE flag in tempfile.TemporaryFile?

2014-05-18 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: (Oops, I made a mistake, the hardcoded constant was still present in my patch 2.) Patch 3 uses tempfile._O_TMPFILE_WORKS variable to check if the O_TMPFILE flag is avaialble and works. Use os.O_TMPFILE = 0o2000 | os.O_DIRECTORY to try my patch with glibc

[issue13916] disallow the surrogatepass handler for non utf-* encodings

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I have no opinion. -- assignee: serhiy.storchaka - ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13916 ___

[issue21522] Add more tkinter tests

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Here is a patch which adds tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(), PanedWindow.paneconfigure() and several tests for Menu.entryconfigure(). -- assignee: serhiy.storchaka components: Tests, Tkinter files: test_tkinter_configure.patch keywords: patch

[issue21523] quadratic-time compilation in the number of 'and' or 'or' expressions

2014-05-18 Thread Andrew Dalke
New submission from Andrew Dalke: Python's compiler has quadratic-time time behavior based on the number of and or or expressions. A profile shows that stackdepth_walk is calling itself in a stack at least 512 levels deep. (My profiler doesn't go higher than that.) I've reduced it to a simple

[issue21524] Allowing to pass pathlib.Path object in mimetypes.guess_type function

2014-05-18 Thread jorispilot
Changes by jorispilot jorispi...@gmail.com: -- components: Library (Lib) nosy: jorispilot priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Allowing to pass pathlib.Path object in mimetypes.guess_type function type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4

[issue16840] Tkinter doesn't support large integers

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Patch synchronized with tip and fixed support of Tcl 8.5. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35280/tkinter_bignum_3.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16840

[issue21386] ipaddress.IPv4Address.is_global not implemented

2014-05-18 Thread Roger Luethi
Roger Luethi added the comment: New patch includes tests. Lightly tested with Python 3.4 (because trunk doesn't build for me right now): tests fail without patch, pass with patch. Patch re-diffed against trunk. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35281/ipv4addr_global2-hg.diff

[issue21430] Document ssl.pending()

2014-05-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
Bas Wijnen added the comment: Alexey: please be more civil. Antoine: In that case, can you please explain how you would recommend me to implement my use case, where most of my calls are master-initiated and blocking, but some slave-initiated events must be non-blocking? Should I make a lot

[issue21520] Erroneous zipfile test failure if the string 'bad' appears in pwd

2014-05-18 Thread Larry Hastings
Larry Hastings added the comment: Here's an eye-wateringly-thorough description of the bug for the sake of posterity. The test code in question is test_write_filtered_python_package() in Lib/test/test_zipfile.py. This function uses PyZipFile to build a zipfile from the contents of the

[issue21525] Accept lists in Tkinter

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: There is very common error when user pass list instead tuple to Tkinter. Some functions accept both tuple and list, some functions reject list, but many functions silently convert non-tuple value to str (e.g. [1, 2] - '[1, 2]' instead of expected Tcl

[issue16840] Tkinter doesn't support large integers

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Changes by Serhiy Storchaka storch...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16840 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue21495] Sane default for logging config

2014-05-18 Thread Thomas Guettler
Thomas Guettler added the comment: Just for the record. Here are the discussions about this topic on the python-ideas mailing list: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-May/027839.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-May/027858.html --

[issue17994] Change necessary in platform.py to support IronPython

2014-05-18 Thread Ian Cordasco
Ian Cordasco added the comment: I missed the fact that the user gave me the information from sys.version: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16545027/ironpython-error-in-url-request?noredirect=1#comment23847257_16545027 I'll throw together a failing test with this and run it against 2.7, and

[issue9673] Entry Widget Not Editable under Windows XP

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Changes by Serhiy Storchaka storch...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue21145] Add the @cached_property decorator

2014-05-18 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
Daniel Greenfeld added the comment: For what it's worth, I just released cached-property on PyPI and someone suggested I join the discussion here. Package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cached-property Repo: https://github.com/pydanny/cached-property Notes: * 92% test coverage, albeit with a

[issue21523] quadratic-time compilation in the number of 'and' or 'or' expressions

2014-05-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, ncoghlan ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21523 ___

[issue21520] Erroneous zipfile test failure if the string 'bad' appears in pwd

2014-05-18 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Testing for Lib/test/bad isn't correct either since the test will fail when the tests are run from an installed Python rather than just from a build directory. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker

[issue19866] tests aifc, sunau and wave failures on a fresh Win64 installation

2014-05-18 Thread Steve Dower
Steve Dower added the comment: I noticed the same thing testing the 2.7.7rc1 installer, so I've got a fix for 2.7.7. The same issue exists for imghdrdata (which was added quite recently, it seems). Patch attached - any concerns? -- keywords: +patch nosy: +benjamin.peterson,

[issue19866] tests aifc, sunau and wave failures on a fresh Win64 installation

2014-05-18 Thread Steve Dower
Steve Dower added the comment: FWIW, the installers are about 130kb larger with the files included. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19866 ___

[issue21507] memory used by frozenset created from set differs from that of frozenset created from other iterable

2014-05-18 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: I restore the original title, my title was a mistake. -- title: set and frozenset constructor should use operator.length_hint to guess the size of the iterator - memory used by frozenset created from set differs from that of frozenset created from

[issue21526] Support new booleans in Tkinter

2014-05-18 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Recent Tcl versions (since 8.5) no longer use internal boolean type. Instead they use booleanString type (but looks as only internally). Here is a patch which add support for booleanString Tcl type in case when it leaks to user. There are no any new tests

[issue20483] Missing network resource checks in test_urllib2 test_smtplib

2014-05-18 Thread Berker Peksag
Berker Peksag added the comment: I couldn't reproduce it either. I also tried related urllib and urllib2 tests: - test_urllib (passed) - test_urllibnet (skipped - Use of the 'network' resource not enabled) - test_urllib_response (passed) - test_urllib2net (skipped - Use of the 'network' resource

[issue21518] Expose RegUnloadKey in winreg

2014-05-18 Thread Claudiu.Popa
Claudiu.Popa added the comment: This version of the patch skips the test if the privileges can't be acquired. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35285/issue21518.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21518

[issue21518] Expose RegUnloadKey in winreg

2014-05-18 Thread eryksun
eryksun added the comment: ctypes LibraryLoader instances cache CDLL/WinDLL instances, which cache function pointers. Using the global ctypes.cdll and ctypes.windll loaders can lead to conflicting definitions for restype, argtypes, and errcheck. I suggest using a private LibraryLoader in

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

2014-05-18 Thread Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon added the comment: Here is an implementation of importlib.util.module_from_spec(). With this it makes PEP 451 conceptually work like: spec = importlib.util.find_spec(name) module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) spec.loader.exec_module(module) About the only other

[issue21145] Add the @cached_property decorator

2014-05-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Does this work for you? class X: ... @property ... @functools.lru_cache(None) ... def get_x(self): ... print(computing) ... return 5 ... x = X() x.get_x computing 5 x.get_x 5 -- nosy: +pitrou, serhiy.storchaka

[issue21145] Add the @cached_property decorator

2014-05-18 Thread Alex Gaynor
Alex Gaynor added the comment: Will that implementation cause a memory leak? Won't the lru_cache have a dict mapping {self: result}, meaning that `self` will live forever, instead of storing result in self.__dict__, where the lifetimes are correct. -- nosy: +alex

[issue21145] Add the @cached_property decorator

2014-05-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Will that implementation cause a memory leak? Won't the lru_cache have a dict mapping {self: result}, meaning that `self` will live forever, instead of storing result in self.__dict__, where the lifetimes are correct. Oh, you're right. Sorry for the noise.

[issue21527] concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor does not use a default value

2014-05-18 Thread Claudiu.Popa
New submission from Claudiu.Popa: As the title says, ThreadPoolExecutor does not use a default value for max_workers parameter, as ProcessPoolExecutor does. When the user does not care about the number of workers and wants only for something to run in background, he has to write code like

[issue21518] Expose RegUnloadKey in winreg

2014-05-18 Thread Claudiu.Popa
Claudiu.Popa added the comment: Thanks. Here's the updated version. Also, I only tested it on Windows 8.1. I'll try to find another machine with an older OS for testing it. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35288/issue21518_1.patch ___

[issue9673] Entry Widget Not Editable under Windows XP

2014-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The reverenced post did not give a runnable minimal example with the claimed bug, but only described more complex code at a now dead link. The following from http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/entry.htm works on my Win7 machine. import tkinter as tk master =

[issue19866] tests aifc, sunau and wave failures on a fresh Win64 installation

2014-05-18 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5318bf3e70a6 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': include test data in the windows installer, so tests don't fail (closes #19866) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5318bf3e70a6 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: - fixed stage: - resolved

[issue19866] tests aifc, sunau and wave failures on a fresh Win64 installation

2014-05-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I applied the patch to my release branch, so it will make it into 2.7.7 final. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19866 ___

[issue21525] Accept lists in Tkinter

2014-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Sounds like a good idea to me. The code looks pretty straightforward as far as I understood it. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21525 ___

[issue21528] Fix a number of typos in the documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Alex Gaynor
New submission from Alex Gaynor: Attached patch is against the default branch, and fixes a number of typos. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: typos.diff keywords: needs review, patch messages: 218769 nosy: alex, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal

[issue6671] webbrowser doesn't respect xfce default browser

2014-05-18 Thread Berker Peksag
Berker Peksag added the comment: Attaching a patch that checks both XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and DESKTOP_SESSION env vars for XFCE. -- nosy: +berker.peksag stage: test needed - patch review versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 Added file:

[issue21529] JSON module: reading arbitrary process memory

2014-05-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
New submission from Benjamin Peterson: (Copy paste from the security list) Python 2 and 3 are susceptible to arbitrary process memory reading by a user or adversary due to a bug in the _json module caused by insufficient bounds checking. The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the

[issue21529] JSON module: reading arbitrary process memory

2014-05-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/50c07ed1743d http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a8facac493ef -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21529

[issue20620] Update the min()/max() docs for the new default argument

2014-05-18 Thread Berker Peksag
Berker Peksag added the comment: Rebased patch. -- versions: +Python 3.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35291/issue20620_v3.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20620

[issue20620] Update the min()/max() docs for the new default argument

2014-05-18 Thread Berker Peksag
Changes by Berker Peksag berker.pek...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file34081/issue20620.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20620 ___

[issue21530] Integer overflow in strop

2014-05-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
New submission from Benjamin Peterson: (copy paste from security list) Integer overflow in strop.expandtabs: Aside: I took a look at python over the weekend as I saw the the Internet Bug Bounty [ https://hackerone.com/python ] are now offering bounties for security bugs + patches for python.

[issue21530] Integer overflow in strop

2014-05-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 5dabc2d2f776 -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21530 ___

[issue12387] IDLE save keyboard shortcut problem

2014-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Reading the Tk Wiki page, it appears that Shift undoes ShiftLock except on Mac, where it does nothing. So there is effectively only ^a and ^A, etc. Looking as the Get New Keys dialog, the Basic Key Binding Entry pane says New keys .. plural, but as far as I

[issue19979] Missing nested scope vars in class scope (bis)

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Changes by Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us: -- nosy: +ethan.furman ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19979 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17352] Be clear that __prepare__ must be declared as a class method

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Changes by Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us: -- nosy: +ethan.furman ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17352 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue18334] type(name, bases, dict) does not call metaclass' __prepare__ attribute

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Changes by Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us: -- nosy: +ethan.furman ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18334 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17421] Drop restriction that meta.__prepare__() must return a dict (subclass)

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Changes by Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us: -- nosy: +ethan.furman ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17421 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17422] language reference should specify restrictions on class namespace

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Changes by Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us: -- nosy: +ethan.furman ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17422 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17044] Implement PEP 422: Simple class initialisation hook

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Changes by Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us: -- nosy: +ethan.furman ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17044 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17044] Implement PEP 422: Simple class initialisation hook

2014-05-18 Thread Berker Peksag
Changes by Berker Peksag berker.pek...@gmail.com: -- versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17044 ___ ___

[issue21519] IDLE : Bug in keybinding validity check

2014-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Now the Control-Key-C binding will be assigned to two actions. I do not see this. I only see Control-Key-c duplicated, which is bad enough to be patched. What did you leave out ;-). Also see #12387, which we need to finish, and Ned's link to

[issue19979] Missing nested scope vars in class scope (bis)

2014-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: #17853 was in the context of metaclasses. Even so, I am puzzled by the opening statement there that from enum import Enum # I added this as necessary class Season(Enum): SPRING = Season() works beautifully at top level as it indeed raises NameError: name

[issue19979] Missing nested scope vars in class scope (bis)

2014-05-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Ethan Furman added the comment: Terry remarked: --- I am puzzled by the opening statement there that from enum import Enum # I added this as necessary class Season(Enum): SPRING = Season() works beautifully at top level as it indeed raises NameError: name 'Season'

[issue21531] Sending a zero-length UDP packet to asyncore invokes handle_close()

2014-05-18 Thread Tony Gedge
New submission from Tony Gedge: Sending a zero-length UDP packet to asyncore closes socket by default. The default implementation of recv() assumes that zero-length data means close. This isn't true for UDP - it is possible to send a zero-length payload packet. A possible work-around is to

[issue21532] 2.7.7rc1 msi is lacking libpython27.a

2014-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
New submission from Martin v. Löwis: The 32-bit installer should include libpython27.a, the import library in GNU ld format. To build it, cygwin must be installed and on PATH when the MSI is built. The file will end up in libs/libpython27.a -- components: Windows messages: 218781